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H. E. CO'ONS.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN. I4, 1921.

Patented Jan. 10, 1922.v

HERBERT E. cooivs, or HAnrUnsvILLE, NEW Yoan.

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.Application filed January 14, 1921. Serial No. 437,253.

T 0 all to hom t may concern Be it known that l, HERBERT E. COONS, acitizen of the United States, residing at l'larpursville, in the countyof Broome and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in Ovens, of which the following' is a specification.

This invention relates to ovens for baking and roasting articles of foodand has for its object the provision of means whereby the temperature ofarticles in the oven may be regulated and whereby they may be easilybrought to the front of the oven to be removed or inspected. Theinvention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and will behereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of aconventional form of cooking stove having my improvements embodiedtherein;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the shelf or upper bottom of the oven;

F ig. 3 is a plan view of the rotary plate.

Referring particularly to the drawings, the numeral l designates aconventional form of cooking stove having an oven 2 therein. ln carryingout my invention, the shelf or upper bottoml 3, spaced above the regularor solid bottom of the oven and preferably made integral with the sidewalls thereof, is provided with a plurality of openings 4f therethroughand these openings are preferably of triangular form, as shown clearlyin Fig. 2, and disposed radially of the upper bottom 3, while the latteris square or conforming to the sha-pe of the oven. At the center of theupper bottom 3 is a stud 5 which projects a slight distance above theupper surface thereof and constitutes a pivot about which the rotaryplate (3 may turn. rThe upper bottom 3 is also provided at intervalswith a series of sockets 7, the said sockets being preferably disposedin relative circular formation concentric with the pivot stud 5, asshown most clearly in Fig. 2. These sockets? receive balls 8 or otheranti-friction devices upon which the rotary plate 6 may rest wherebyfrictional contact between the rotary plate 6 and upper bottom 3 isavoided and the rotary plate may be turned easily when desired. Therotary plate is circular and provided at its center with en opening 9 toreceive the pivot stud 5, so will be disposed concentric with the upperbottom and through the plate are formed a plurality of openings l0corresponding in size, number and shape to the openings a through theupper bottom 3, so that the circulation of heated air upwardly throughthe oven may be nicely regulated. If the openings 10 be caused tocoincide with the openings 4, the heat currents from below the oven willbe permitted to pass through the openings to the full capacity of thesame and if the rotary plate be turned so that the openings 10 will beout of alinement with the openings 4l, the flow of the heat currents maybe more or less completely cut-olf in an obvious manner. To facilitatethe turning of the plate 6, small handles or projections l1 are providedon the upper side thereof at intervals, as shown clearly in Figs. l and3.

The articles to be cooked are placed upon the rotaryE plate G in thesame manner `as they are ordinarily placed upon the bottom of an ovenand the plate adjusted so as to regulate the temperature of the ovenaccording to the nature of the food being cooked. If it be desired toinspect articles at the rear of the plate 6, the latter is turned and,of course, the articles thereon will be successively brought to thefront of the oven where they may be easily inspected and, if fullycooked, may be removed. it will thus be seen that I avoid the necessitynow existing of the cook reaching into a hot oven to handle hot pans andthereby being exposed to injury. .The device is exceedingly simple andis not apt to get out of order and may be readily applied to any oven ata low cost. The plate 6 will be retained in its proper position by thepivot stud and the anti-friction supportingdevices 8. Moreover, theimprovements may be applied to any oven without materially decreasingthe capacity of the same.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

Inv combination with an oven having a solid bottom, roof and side walls;of a shelf integral with said walls and spaced from said bottom, saidshelf having radial arms forming triangular openings between them,sockets being provided in alignment that the y platey Specicatin ofLetters Patent. Patented Jani. if), i922, l

with said arms on the upper side of said shelf, balls deposited in seidsockets to provide entifrietion bearings, aoentral stud on the upperside of said shelf; a plate hai-vying e circular rim adeptedpto engagewith vsaid wells and providedwith radial arms form` ing aperturesbetween them corresponding to the openings in seid shelf, a central holeHERBERT E. oooNs. [Le]

